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KMID : 0895320090180010051
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Korean Journal of Research in Gerontology
2009 Volume.18 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.60
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Relations between Suicidal Ideation, Family Support, and Spirituality for the Elderly Patients
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Choi Gil-Soon
Park Dae-Sung
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Abstract
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The suicide rates rose from 12.9 per 100,000 persons in 1996 to 24.8 in 2007. The suicide rate for the elderly has been rising more rapidly when compared to those of the other age groups. In order to prevent suicidal behavior for the elderly patients, it is necessary to find out and/or any risk or buffering factor that is related suicidal ideation. This study was to delineate a buffering effect of family support and spirituality on suicidal ideation for the elderly outpatients. Even though the sample size was not good enough and there were gender differences in educational level and age from the current sample, the buffering effects were confirmed. That is, the only buffering factor of family support was confirmed for the male patients and it occupied about 11% of explained variance for the suicidal ideation. In addition, there were two buffering factors of spirituality and family support for the female patients. Interestingly, in the female sample, the ratio of variance explained for the spirituality was almost 55% and that of family support about 3%.
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